France & Germany! Day 6, Part 1: Strasbourg, Petite France

Bcos we were in a hotel and I didn’t have to worry about disturbing the neighbours, I did my HiiT. There was no gym at the hotel and I was considerate to do a HiiT that doesn’t required me to jump around too much. 

On the way to the Christmas market yday, we came across a little canal with footpath on both sides. Nana said that she wanted to go for a morning run, but she and I shared a pair of running shoes for the trip. There are too many homeless people seen in Strasbourg for us to allow her to run alone. Zaky refused to accompany her and thus Daddy Lim came to the rescue. I just finished my HiiT and passed my running shoes to Nana. 

They do look like pro winter joggers! 

We are so versatile and collaborative in our dressing on this trip. Nana and I had been sharing shoes, including a pair of Dr Martin that Ah Yee gifted us. I never own a pair of Dr Martin and it has become expensive (always) and uncommon in Singapore. It is still expensive in Europe but ah Yee got a few pairs, bought during sales. I benefited. Thank you ah Yee.

Not only did we share shoes but also bottoms. The pair that Daddy Lim wore for the jog belongs to Zaky, who wore it to the Catacombs on the 1st day, Nana wore it to sleep some days and I wore it out. So versatile. Don’t worry, we did laundry several times during the trip. 

Back to the jog, they came back and Nana did 3.2km around the canal. Daddy Lim was there to make sure that he kept Nana in sight but I am sure he had some exercise too. 

So scenic, right??!!

They came back and were still looking alive. They said that there were many more joggers, just that they were dressed a lot lesser than them. lol.

While they huff and puff, I was happily enjoying my bfast, which consisted of leftovers from last evening and pastry from the bakery nearby. Ooooo.. I love all their bread and pastry. Even plain baguette tastes so good.

Zaky was just sleeping. lol.

Our agenda was to go to the Le Petite France. We got out about 10am and checking out at the same time, leaving our luggage at the hotel. European hotels checkin is later at 3pm and checkout at 10am. Why like this? 

We found an interesting shop. 

But we only have 1 son. 

More eating along the way. 

Finally at Le Petite France and it is beautiful. 

The kids were my model but they barely keen to entertain me. Instead, another single tourist heard me telling Nana to do this and that and asked me to help her take pictures instead. Lol. 

We had lunch at O’Taco, which is a French Taco fast food. It was very nice bcos it is a lot of sinful meat and fries and even more sinful sauce to top it off. The serving portions were huge but the boys chomped theirs down easily. 

Ending our Strasbourg with a little more Christmas markets. We have come to the conclusion that all Christmas markets are the same. 

I had wanted to start a collection of “something” and decided that I would start buying something mini from all the different places that I visit henceforth. My very 1st collection. Hoho. Only the duck is mine, to remind us of all the fat ducks that we had seen in France. 

We decided to walk back to the train station as we were familiar with the way then to take the tram and get lost.

On the way to Stuttgart! Bye France, hello Germany! 

Mummy Lim